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Article: Expansion, Storage, and Protection: Important Elements for Digital Camera Consumers and Money-Makers for Retailers and Manufacturers, According to The NPD Group.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- March 9, 2007
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LAS VEGAS -- The digital imaging market is a picture worth a thousand words, or millions of dollars for manufacturers and retailers. As camera revenue growth begins to slow, it's the accessories market that's keeping business booming. According to The NPD Group's retail tracking service, digital camera accessories, including items such as lenses, cases, batteries, speedlights, tripods, accessory kits, docks, lens filters and adapters, powerpacks and chargers, grew 29 percent in units from 2005 to 2006, and 40 percent in dollar volume.
From 2004 to 2006, the contribution of camera accessory revenue to the entire digital imaging market went from 9 percent to 13 ...